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Shelby Foote Quotes

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Shelby Foote

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 17, 1916 - June 27, 2005

Topics

Poetry Writing Interesting Write

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

Jinder Mahal

School High School Wrestling High

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Joe Taslim

Parents Me Athlete Become Wanted

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

John Legend

Music People Me Ideas Start Know

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Father Business Moment Me Never

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

Michael Finkel

Me Places Afghanistan Well Been Had

I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!

Rob Delaney

Love People Stand I Can Smell Room

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Michelle Obama

School Law Choose Sociology Nothing

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

Mother Confidence Poetry Reading Owe

I don't rule out anything in my future.

Judd Gregg

Future Out Anything Rule

My goal when I first started in the WWE was to stand out.

Dolph Ziggler

Stand Goal First Out Started WWE

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

Denise Morrison

Leadership Best Ideas Build Will

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

Christopher Reeve

Dream Never Still Disabled Had